International Yoga Day – 15 Facts About Yoga That Everyone Needs To Know

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2Read the numerous medical research papers of Yoga on-line at US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

Type “yoga” and search more at  : www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Patanjali yoga sutra compiled by Rishi Patanjali somewhere between 1,700 and 2,200 years ago (around 400 CE), It has 196 sutras, only 4-5 sutras demonstrated about physical yoga (Ashanas) 190 sutras are all about controlling mind and purifying soul. (Chitta-Vritti)

Rishi Patanjali’s name associated with modern age yoga is complete misused.

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US ARMY & Yoga, YAA – Yoga Across America

“Yoga for American Soldiers,” is saving lives and healing the traumas of soldiers who are returning home with from war. YAA is sharing yoga, meditation and breathing exercises to active duty soldiers and veterans.

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And then and there, for the first time in my life, I was really ready to deal with me. A lot of guys was afraid to deal with Big Ed. And now I was ready to take him on, right there on that meditation mat.”

Vipassana meditation used effectively to calm prisoners in many Jails across the world.

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Contrast to one day YOGA !!Tibetan Meditation Box Retreat that the monk or a nun may undertake an intensive sitting meditation retreat in the course of 3 years, 3 months 3 days, to be positioned in a wooden box which is about 1 meter in diameter, for around 20 hours per day, including the night and do nothing else but meditate except for 2 meals.

9 10Buddhist Monk Displays “Unheard Of” Brain Activity While Meditation

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Dr. Konstantin KorotkovHe developed bio electrographic camera, which captures bio-electric energy of organs. With this camera he experimented and published research papers on “Yogi Chakras” of a person in meditation : Dr. Konstantin Korotkov

The camera captures soul escaping at moment of death

The photograph document the human soul (blue) exiting the body at the exact moment of death. The images show the soul easing from the body before the patient’s image becomes red. Notice that initially the mid rift is sapped of life force, the head follows, and then finally the heart and groin area lose their energy and the soul has fled the deceased person’s body

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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6, Verse 16Yoga is certainly not at all for one, who eats a lot, or for one who does not eat or for one who sleeps or is awake a lot.

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Chapter 6, Verse 17For someone who is balanced in eating and recreation, who is balanced in conducting actions, who is balanced and wakefulness, yoga becomes the destroyer of pain.

15Yoga is fearless, is illuminating, and is a journey that doesn’t end with death.

Article compiled by  : Cartoonist Mayank